slaughter

Speech parts

1. slaughter - Noun

2. slaughter - Verb

3. Slaughter - Proper noun

Meaning

The act of killing.

The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.

The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.

To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.

To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

butchery massacre carnage butcher killing murder dispatch annihilation bloodshed extermination slaying whipping thrashing genocide drubbing
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Antonyms

renaissance amnesty become life beginning create
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Hypernyms

kill defeat killing execution murder slaying

Hyponyms

chine bloodshed bloodletting bloodbath battue

Phrases with the word

like a lamb to the slaughter as a lamb to the slaughter wholesale slaughter mass slaughter like lambs to slaughter like lambs to the slaughter

Derivatives

slaughtered slaughtering

Anagrams

laughster lethargus slaughtre

Examples

They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter Source: Internet

The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda Source: Internet

Achilles Clark, a soldier with the 20th Tennessee cavalry, wrote to his sister immediately after the battle: The slaughter was awful. Source: Internet

After two days the outnumbered garrison capitulated but Don Alfonso permitted a terrible slaughter. Source: Internet

An additional motivation for eliminating private slaughter was to impose a careful system of regulation for the "morally dangerous" task of putting animals to death. Source: Internet

A Folsom projectile point The Folsom Tradition was characterized by use of Folsom points as projectile tips, and data from kill sites, where slaughter and butchering of bison took place. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

slaugh slaught slaught-beam slaughter house slaughterable slaughterbot